Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If British evidence is anything to go by it is often large and relatively dated production units that tend to be the first to close in periods of rationalisation . |
| 2 | Tim has the kind of gut feeling for old furniture that comes from being the second generation in the trade . |
| 3 | He is quickly shipped off to San Francisco to be studied by a German scientist ( Jon Voight ) , and found to be the last survivor of a tribe massacred by the White Man . |
| 4 | It 's worthwhile reading some pre-Shakespearean drama ; you could read Everyman , a great morality play of the late Middle Ages , and Gammer Gurton 's Needle , first performed in 1566 and thought to be the second oldest English comedy . |
| 5 | Mansfield reader FRED GREEN has checked with the British Cichlid Association and appears to be the first person to have spawned Green Chromides in the UK . |
| 6 | She 's a ‘ free spirit ’ and appears to be the second most dominant female in the group . |
| 7 | It is said to have the largest on-chip cache in the industry — two thirds of its 3.1m transistors are dedicated to the cache — and claims to be the first with complete on-chip multi-processing . |
| 8 | Bull reckons its systems integration business is growing at three times the market rate and claims to be the fourth largest systems integration business in Europe . |
| 9 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 10 | Support for this statement , admittedly of a negative sort , may be found in Taskopruzade in that his mention of Molla Fenari as seems to be the first mention in the Shaka'ik of any such title . |